Trump says it will be 'very hard' for Herschel Walker to win the Georgia Senate race if Brian Kemp is the GOP gubernatorial nominee

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Donald Trump maintains that Herschel Walker will be hurt by the presence of Brian Kemp on the ballot.

In a tele-rally held on behalf of David Perdue, Trump insisted that Kemp would be a drag on Republicans in their effort to restore GOP dominance in a state that saw major Democratic gains in 2020.

If Brian Kemp gets in, it will be very hard for Herschel Walker to win, according to the former president. If they don't vote for Brian Kemp, they won't be able to vote for Herschel Walker.

On May 24, Kemp will compete in the GOP gubernatorial primary against Perdue who lost his reelection bid to now-Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in a 2021 Senate runoff election and received the endorsement of Trump late last year.

Walker, a former University of Georgia football star and NFL star, will be weighed down by some grassroots grumblings regarding Kemp's refusal to overturn the presidential election results in the Peach State, which saw now- President Joe Biden.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger rejected Trump's pleas to find additional votes to invalidate Biden's win. Despite no evidence of widespread fraud after several vote counts, the former president still believes that Kemp did not do his due diligence.

Perdue, who is currently trailing Kemp in most major polling, parroted Trump's convictions about the two races during the tele-rally.

The former senator pointed out the significance of the Georgia contests as Republicans seek to regain the Senate majority that they lost last year while also warding off a challenge.

During the event, Trump blasted Kemp as a "truly horrendous RINO" or Republican in name only, a derogatory term for members of the party who aren't considered to be true conservatives. The former president said that Kemp would not inspire robust GOP turnout, a problem that proved devastating for Republicans during the Senate runoffs in 2021, which saw Perdue and then-Sen. The enthusiasm gap developed in the weeks leading up to the January election, which resulted in the loss of their seats to the Democrats.